September 26th-30th

On By Parkview PS

Reminder: All students will begin in their new homerooms tomorrow. If your child was impacted by reorganization you were contacted by the school. Thank you for your continued support and understanding.

Parent/Guardian Contact Information:  Index verification cards will be sent home this week.  Please ensure all information stated on verification cards is up to date, as this is the information we use to contact families.  If some details are inaccurate, please make corrections on the card.  Once cards have been verified, families are asked to return cards to Parkview as soon as it is possible. 

Additional reminders:  

  • families are asked to have a plan in place should the school contact them to pick up their child.  
  • students should NOT be arriving prior to 8:15am and leave school grounds at 3:00pm,  
  • NO nuts or nut products should be brought to school
  • no toys/loot bags or food should be brought to school, for birthdays etc 
  • students should go straight home for safe dismissal; playdates/plans with friends can be made with families once students are home

Parkview’s Colour House Run:  Parkview’s COLOUR House Run will be taking place this Thursday, September 29th.  We welcome friends and family to come and support our students as they participate in this annual event!  Two reminders to families planning to join us on the 29th – 1) Pictures and/or videotaping are not permitted; 2) Pets are not allowed on school property during the instructional day.

Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – Friday September 30th: Every year on September 30, Canadians observe Orange Shirt Day. It is a day to educate and promote awareness of residential schools and their lasting legacies of trauma, suffering and genocide of Indigenous Peoples. These institutions were designed to assimilate Indigenous children and to eradicate Indigenous cultural practices. 

In 2021, First Nations independently began to locate the unmarked graves of thousands of Indigenous children at the sites of former residential schools. This has sparked many Canadians to rethink what they thought they knew about these institutions and revisit the way they speak to students about them.

We encourage students to wear an orange shirt on September 30, 2022, to recognize the resiliency, bravery of Residential School Survivors and those who did not come home.  For more information on orange shirt day, please visit.   https://www.orangeshirtday.org/

Immunization Clinic @ Parkview for Grades 7 & 8:  Immunizations against Hepatitis B, Human papillomavirus (HPV) and Meningococcal infection are routinely offered to students in grade 7 through an in-school immunization program run by York Region Public Health (YRPH). For the 2022-2023 school year, YRPH Immunization Clinic program is offering student-catch up immunization clinics to students in grades 7 through 12 in elementary and secondary schools for these important routine vaccines.  Parkview is scheduled to host this clinic on Wednesday, October 26th.  Additional information, including consent instructions, can be found here.

School Council Meeting:  Our first School Council meeting of the 2022-2023 school year will be held on Monday, October 3rd, in-person.  If you would like to attend, please complete the RSVP form by September 28th, 2022. The RSVP form and details of the meeting will be emailed out to you.

Meet & Greet Night:  Meet and Greet will take place on OCTOBER 6th, 2022.  This is an opportunity for families to meet with their child’s teacher and hear about programming expectations for the classroom.  More information will be emailed out.

Anti-Asian Racism Focus Group Invitation: The York Region District School Board (YRDSB) is researching the experiences of Asian students, staff and community members to dismantle anti-Asian racism and foster belonging and safer spaces. Asian identifying (East Asian, South Asian, South East Asian) members are invited to a focus group. If you are an Asian identifying member of the YRDSB, then you are invited to participate in a virtual focus group (small discussion group) to talk about your experiences within the YRDSB institution. For your participation, you will receive a small gift!  Please view this link for more information.

Upcoming Faith Days:  For faith observances this month, please see the YRDSB Multifaith Calendar located on the new revised YRDSB School Calendar page.

All communication from the school comes via:

We would like to remind all of our families that our goal is to work together to support the well-being of all our students. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. We look forward to working in partnership with our Parkview Community.